Now that the weather is getting warm, Gina is excited to enjoy the great outdoors on her new porch chairs. Her one problem is that “the pillows they came with were so dull & sort of ho-hum.” Luckily, Gina had a pair of old couch pillows hanging around “for just an opportunity like this.” She’s showing {…Read More…}

While Jenny from Paint & Pillows was grateful for all of the baby gear friends and family passed along to her when she announced her pregnancy, she does have one question for the world at large: “Why can’t baby stuff actually go with the decor of the home?” She decided that there was no reason she couldn’t restyle some of the larger pieces of equipment–like this baby swing–so they would coordinate with the spaces where they’d be sitting out, ready to use.

“I’m not usually the trash picking sort (this was a first for me) but I really couldn’t resist,” Erin confesses at House of Earnest. When she spotted these cane chairs in her neighbor’s trash pile, she lost all her inhibitions about trash picking. Despite the unraveling cane wrap, seats that were barely there, and {…Read More…}

At Our Southern Home, Christy had an old set of antique iron furniture she’d purchased fifteen years ago from an ad in the newspaper. “These chairs have been sitting in the loft of our barn for over ten years!” Christy confessed.

Becky blogs over at This is Happiness. Recently, her son began taking piano lessons, which meant it was past time for their family to own a piano. Lucky for them, the Craigslist gods were smiling, and the first time Becky checked the “free” section of Craigslist, this piano was available.

When Megan from Rappsody in Rooms found this pendant light, she was thrilled. “The shape was the to die for (hello hexagons!). However, the electrical was on the fritz,” she says. “I kept the fixture around, waffling on whether I want to rewire it (a new lighting kit would do the trick) or turn it into something unexpected.”

Over at How Joyful, Joy had an office chair that was pretty beat up, and she didn’t like the dark leather look of it. But the chair was still so comfortable to sit in that she decided to give it another chance before throwing it out.